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Scottish Country Houses, 1600-1914 / Ian Gow, Alistair Rowan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748610778
  • 9781474468602
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Plethora of Palaces -- 2 Design Approaches in Early Post-Reformation Scots Houses -- 3 'Scarce a Finer Seat in Scotland' -- 4 Two Late Seventeenth-Century Designs for Kinnaird Castle -- 5 Sir William Bruce's Design for Hopetoun House and Its Forerunners -- 6 Organs, Orrerys and Others -- 7 An Account of the Reconstruction of William Adam's Design for Gladney House, with some Observations on Other Early Projects -- 8 The Restoration of the House of Dun -- 9 Views in Scottish Houses, 1630-I770 -- 10 John Elphinstone and the Castle of Glamis -- 11 A Roger Morris-John Adam Episode in Astylar Palladianism -- 12 A Bibliophile's Bagnio -- 13 Robert Adam at Walkinshaw -- 14 Robert Adam and John Clerk of Eldin -- 15 David (or John?) Henderson's Designs for Caprington Castle -- 16 'This Disagreeable Business' -- 17 'The New Square Style' -- 18 J. P. Neale and the Views of Scotland -- 19 John Smith and Craigievar Castle -- 20 A Neo-Baronial Monymusk Not Built by William Burn -- 21 The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and Dunrobin Castle -- 22 Relugas and the Dick Lauder Family -- 23 Introducing Alexander Roos -- 24 The Scottish Houses of William Leiper -- 25 The Country House, Larger Villas and Related Hotel Designs of Sir John James Burnet -- 26 The Architect's House and the Search for a 'National Style' -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Photographic Credits -- Index of Designers and Buildings
Summary: This new illustrated paperback edition examines the Scottish country house in all its guises - from great classical houses like Hopetoun, to familiar castles such as Glamis and Craigievar - as well as giving insights into the architects who designed them, including William and Robert Adam, Sir John James Burnet and Sir William Bruce.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Plethora of Palaces -- 2 Design Approaches in Early Post-Reformation Scots Houses -- 3 'Scarce a Finer Seat in Scotland' -- 4 Two Late Seventeenth-Century Designs for Kinnaird Castle -- 5 Sir William Bruce's Design for Hopetoun House and Its Forerunners -- 6 Organs, Orrerys and Others -- 7 An Account of the Reconstruction of William Adam's Design for Gladney House, with some Observations on Other Early Projects -- 8 The Restoration of the House of Dun -- 9 Views in Scottish Houses, 1630-I770 -- 10 John Elphinstone and the Castle of Glamis -- 11 A Roger Morris-John Adam Episode in Astylar Palladianism -- 12 A Bibliophile's Bagnio -- 13 Robert Adam at Walkinshaw -- 14 Robert Adam and John Clerk of Eldin -- 15 David (or John?) Henderson's Designs for Caprington Castle -- 16 'This Disagreeable Business' -- 17 'The New Square Style' -- 18 J. P. Neale and the Views of Scotland -- 19 John Smith and Craigievar Castle -- 20 A Neo-Baronial Monymusk Not Built by William Burn -- 21 The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and Dunrobin Castle -- 22 Relugas and the Dick Lauder Family -- 23 Introducing Alexander Roos -- 24 The Scottish Houses of William Leiper -- 25 The Country House, Larger Villas and Related Hotel Designs of Sir John James Burnet -- 26 The Architect's House and the Search for a 'National Style' -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Photographic Credits -- Index of Designers and Buildings

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This new illustrated paperback edition examines the Scottish country house in all its guises - from great classical houses like Hopetoun, to familiar castles such as Glamis and Craigievar - as well as giving insights into the architects who designed them, including William and Robert Adam, Sir John James Burnet and Sir William Bruce.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)